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Britain

HONGKONG HEARS KING LAUNCH NEW BATTLESHIP

A COMMENTARY on the launching of Britain's latest 35,000 ton battleship at Tyneside by the King was picked up by Hongkong radio listeners at 11.25 p.m. last night.

Though marred by static, the

broadcast became dramatically Spain

clear when the King exclaimed. "I name this ship King George the Fifth. May God bless her and all those who serve in her." To the accompaniment of ringing cheers and exclamations of "she's moving," the giant ship took to the BUD, grey mist adding a picturesque touch to the scene.

· The noise of the ship muving down the slip came through clearly. To launch the vessel the King moved a small lever which released a cham- pagne bottle against the ship's side, and a huge trigger holding the war ship.

In the of the

FRANCO REMAINS ADAMANT

Burgos, Feb. 21.

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OVERNIGHT | United States NEWS PAGE

New British Battleship Launched By King-American Nazis 'in New York Demons- tration-Seven United States Planes Crash- Roosevelt Rebuked Franco Remains Adamant--Another Shanghai Assassination Election Ot Popo On March I-Irish Treasos Bill Passed.

Germany

Roosevelt Rebuked By Press

February 22, 1939.

GERMAN BUNDIST RALLY PROVOKES DEMONSTRATIONS

A BIG RALLY of the pro-Nazi "German-American Bund" is being held in Madison Square Garden in -New York and extraordinary precautions are being taken by the police to prevent disorders. Both inside and outside- the hall, however, the police were called upon to quell unruly crowds. In speeches loaders of the Bund de- nounced the American attitude towards world Jewry.

Crowds Pack Btreets

New York, Feb. 21. New York is guarded by what the Pulice Commissioner describes as "enough police to stop a revolution.” Nazi sym- Approximately 20,000 pathisers will attend the rally which is being hold "to celebrate George Washington's birthday,"

Outside the hall a hostile crowd of | 100,000 are ignoring the advice of the Acting Mayur, Mr. Newbold Morris, reply to President Roosevelt's mys "to shum this assembly as one would terious pronouncement uhou the

and are a pestilence," probability of his premature return stempletely blocking them to to Washington from attending the naval manoeuvres owing to disquiet-

Berlin, Feb. 21. That Leon Berard, French envoy to **era in Europe we know nothing Burgos, returned to Paris Im- of new and grave developments"

nediately

resumption of his whites Berliner alter

Nachtausgabe talks will members of the Insurgent Spanish Gavernment, is seen here as mentator, mity workers, tacir wive evidence of Genew) Franco's resolve and sweethearts gave three cheers to refrain from making any concer for His Majesty, busy tuge huddled for the sake of surmounting the round the vessel and guided her obstacles in the way of an under-ing news from Europe. safely to her appointed position out-standing with France, side the dockyard,

The main dimeully with which the French Government has to contend, it is reallard here. Hea in the fact that France still regards the Loyalist Spanish Government as legitimate

After the ceremony

of cheers

of thes

in a furmal sense.

As

American news agencies, it is stated in despatches from New York, have cabled to their representatives in the European capitals asking them to make lovestigations, but they have been unable to discover any symptoms of

approaching European crisis.

force Europe into war at all cost

traffic.

Ireland

TREASON BILL PASSED

Dublin, Feb. 21. The text of the Eire Treuson Bill which has been issued provides the death penalty for treason, consisting Six arrests have been made in a reries of sporadic clashes between levying war against the State or the police ned unti-Nazi demonstra-sisting or conspiring to levy a war, tors, but no one in reported to have been injured-Reuter.

"Bank" and "Fools"

New York, Feb. 20.

Kulim and the Bund

Another skirmish

attempting by any violent means to overthrow the lawful Government. Every person who, being an Irish eitizen or ordinarily resident in Eire, outside the State commlis treason shall be liable to the death penalty on conviction. 4

This section

ion has excited much in- terest and is taken to mean that should a citizen of Eire act in treasonable

able way towards Eire from another country, the Government of are could ask

for his extradition, and this may particularly apply to Great Britain.

The Klan, accompanieri by the Queen, who was dressed in a soft- purple colour, was #ecorded an over- whelming reception by the big crowd gathering at the Vickers Armstrong Kurd Sir Charles Craven, Monawr political circles in Paels link sident Roosevelt, who is so worried attacker

Another obstacle lies in the way in

The upshot of it all is that Pre- An unidentified man attempted to the Director of

the ing

builders,

escorted Their Majesties

who first inspected a up the Spanish isrue with big ques-abous Europe, mum allow himself "Storm Troopers" beat and kicket

tions of world polities. bodyguard of 100 naval men.

fo be told," proceeds the German him before he was rescued by the the Insurgent two

Broinst

commentary, adding that Europe Police. oldest workers of the yard were Spanish Government is interested in does not need his anxiety.

occurred when resented to the King

dis Jure recognition, primarily in so "Is President Roosevelt seeking tice escurted the columnist Dorothy and

Queen who drove away to the necomponent far as it affects the question of the with his persistent talk of war to Thompson cutritte after the audience

¡ restoration of

of Spanish

property in from the onlookers. Prior to the

and the launch, the

the repatriation usual sim France

of just in order to emble the American had objected to her laughing at the

Persons knowingly harbouring a a psalm.

Spanish refugees, whereas the ques- armaments industry reap profts speakers as well as to her audible service, a

prayer anl

tion of termination of the war by or is the American oppositional press comments. Bunders shouted: "Throw traitor are able to a fine or two

years' her out."

imprisonment. Persons hymn, was conducted, as the Ki pitulation of the Loyalists is held right when it sees in the hysterical dressed as Admiral of the Fleet, stood to be a matter of purely deme tie outbursts of the President merely an

clining to disclose or deliberately Dorothy Thompson returned later withholding knowledge of treason on the launching platform with the onerrn in which foreign mediation attempt to draw attention away from and continued to shout an occasion are liable to five years' imprison- the Growing diMcullies of the American domestle and polllion!

A second 11 entitled Offence situation," the paper asks. It adds ed to the Press: "I laughed because

the State that Europe knows how to take the the Nazis are exerclsing their free-Against

they would against the Irish dom of speech which pronouncements of President Rop deny everybody."

authorises the Herr G. W. Kunze, Bund National special criminal Organiser, demanded that the radio cxpected in a day or two.-Keuler

cease giving people the trash of Wal-Special.

plo

Queen.

The King George Vis one of a class of live battleship; to be fitted with 14 inch guns under the naval rearmament programme,

Inspection Tour

London, Feb, #1

is not sought or desired.

or

It is stressed that the new offen- ve against Madrid which was launched

yesterday will be conducted without the slightest regard to pre sent

future negotiations. The surecss of military operations, it is claimed, is bound to affect conversa- The King and Queen began their tions with London and Paris. As in three-day tour of Northumberland | the case of Catalonia, diplomacy Will and Durham this morning when they be ruled out by the course of mili visited an armaments factory at lary events. Newcastle-on-Tyne, where crowds cheered them as they drove through ground in competent circles in Bursto

the streets. They inspected the vari-

ous branches of armament produe-

tion, including gun mounting for the batlicship King George V, which Their Majesties will launch later in the

day. Queen Mary, the Princess Royal

chases.

Comparison Made

London, Feb. 20.

The impression is already gaining

and is now

that Britain is quick to realise this collations with General Franco Tranz-Ocean.

seeking to expedite

The

by

at: "Bunk" or "Foot," She explain-ment.

sevelt since the determination of the European peoples to preserve peace is stronger than the efforts of certain of their own business or poltticalter Winchell and Eddle Cantor and American circles find a way out

difficulties.—Trans-Ocean.

give them the velce of one who does not speak

language the American with a Jewish accent."

Fritz Kulan attached

de-

Bill ond aimed Republican Anny establishment of courts which are

DEATH FOR TREASON

Berlin, Feb. 20. Trouble-Making Tacties

The Government

the has issued London, Feb. 21.

Treason Bill providing, the death of war mongering, Germany herrel turned to the Christians who found for any Reich

White accusing President Roosevelt and said: "America should be re-

the Jewe penalty for any

persun committing trenson within the State as well as not lacking in the least in defend it. The time will come when no-treason outside citizen committing sive measures for trouble anticipated body will stand in our way."

the State.United early in March,

from

Press,

Rudolf Markmann, Eastern Di trict Leader, denied that the Bund U.S. Fleet Exercises is seeking Nazilkm

for the United Stutes.

and is not for export. We fight in- "Nazism is reserved for Germany ternational Jewry for God and the country."United Press,

The battleship is the rst of ie kain franco-Spanish frontier was submarines have been intended pri- volce denouncing Herr Hiller boomed

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Border Closed Again

Reports reaching London Bayonne, Feb. 21.

Berlin state that ships bull to act and the Duke of Kent to-day visited Several Loyalist Spanish olsera

as auxiliary naval vessels in ease of the Olympla section of the British and political leaders who ded to

war have been forbidden to make Industries Fair and nude many pur-France after the debacle in Catalonia of reach of German or Talian ports ang arrangements putting them out lett Toulouse yesterday morning from March 1, it is also persistently The Duke and Duchess of Glou-le for Valencia after making known reported, although nutelally denteit cester are inspecting the cruiser their resolve to die rather than sub- that two dotillas of U-bonts, with Gloucester at Plymouth to-day-mit to the Franco regime. The group their mother-ships, are making de- Gramophone Denounces Ililler Reuter Bulletin.

includes General Cisneros, Cumman- der-in-Chief of the Loyalist Spanish antic and perhaps even to the Medi- fensive manoeuvres as far as the At-

New York, Feb. 20, Air Force

Early this evening a mysterious terranen. Hitherto these small type closed yesterday as the Insur-

Madison Square Garden, new ships row building and project-gent authorities were unable to cope marily for constal defence nad never outside

after which the voice rank the Star

New York, Feb. 21. ca la substantial numbers, which, with the large numbers of Loyalist officers or men of the German Army.

stated that no Spangled Banner.

Twelve single-seater fighters parti- Hong Kong Depot. Tel. 21279. will restore the militin and civilians seeking retry Navy or Air Force can obtain leave says The Times,

Police finally located the speaker--cipating in the naval manoeuvres Peak Depot, 10 into Spain. strength of the British Navy

As a result about 50,009 of absence after the end of Februan automalle

gramophone on the became trapped in the fog over standard demanded by the conditions Loyalist militiamen and civilians are! and it is even said that all leave street, Nabody was in the room. them crashed. One pilot was killed

second floor of R house

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are cancelled for March. Steamship Drawing a parallel between the

and one is missing, while the others new chip and the last one to bear According to one account, the clus-companies are reluctant to book pas- United Press.

lunded safely by sages to America after the end' of

parachute. her name in the Royal Navy. The ing of the frontier has been order-ch

Reuter Bulletin. Italy's recall Times

of warships the "eld Kinged by General Franco as a protest from South America is also noted.- George V was launched only nine or reprisal against the retention of traited Press. months after being laid down and the Insurgent Spanish refugees and was completed in about 13 months prisoners in France-Trans-Ocean. more, but the new ship will need

recalls that

hardly less than double that time for

of the

but it

Crucial Stage

Burgos, Feb. 21. Conversations at the Foreign Office expected to be resumed to-mor- at which not only Senor Jor- dana and Senator Leon Berard, but of the relative complexity of the Sir Robert Hodgson may part-

elpate. equipment of modern warships and

It is generally felt here that the those of the lust generation.

Navy architects of 1911, had not next few days will decide the Issue realized the need for special protec-f war or peace in Spain.-Reuter, tion against underwater explosion,

building. The precise cost new ship is not yet known, seems unlikely that it will be less are than four times that of her predeceso sur, and that, indeed, is the measure

which was brought home so forcibly though the main armament of the to the Navy in the first year of the new ship is to be practically the war. The need for anti-altcraft samme as that of her predecessor in armament, with its large ainminition name, 14-Inch guns as against 13.5 supply and intricate and delicate cun-inch, in developments such those out- trol installation, had not arisen. The lined above is found the cause of an seed demanded by the capabilities increase in displacement of flity per of ships of foreign navles was by cent, and in rost of 400 per cent.- modern idens but moderate. Thus, British Wireless,

Another Assassination In

Shanghai Yesterday

Shonghal, Feb. 21. Li is alleged to have shown lean

left the Baltic. It is

1939,

Speaker Attacked

New York. Feb. 21.

Twelve Planes Down Excitement at the Naz rally

Pensacola, Feb. 21. reach a frenzied pealt when Izodore

Twelve naval planes crashed and Greenbaum, a young hotel worker, Brazilian navy student was killed, leaped on the stage and advanced says United Press.

Stallon attendants said five planes upon Fritz Kuhn, leader of the bund,

an anti-were destroyed and the other pilots who was in the midst of Semitic tirade,

arc dangeroudy injured, The Six powerful Storm Troopers leap- crashes occurred over an area ex- ed on Greenbaum, beat him and tending from Pensacola to 30 miles dragged him across the stage by the north and east. hair. When he was eventually res- The planes. took off at dusk on a cued by the police his clothing was routine night-flight and encountered in shreds. He was arrested on tot. They separated to avoid col- listons and circled blindly until mid- night when their fuel was exhausted and then all landed blind. Seven of the pilots parachuting to safety.

PHILIPPINES EXERCISES

Feb, 21.

Bread Supply Assured

Berlin, Feb. 21. Germany's bread supply for the current year is fully satisfiable from the amounts at present on hand with a substantial reserve left for the coming year, according to an official statement

Bread grain stores on January 31, amounted to approximately ten millions tons, which is 4.4 million

charge of disorderly conduct, tons higher than a year earlier. During the rally bands blared and according to figures supplied by the the audience sang German folk songs Reich Statistical Bureau of this and cheered any references in the lota) 5.4 million tons are still in far- speeches to Herr iltler and Signor mer's barns, while 4.0 milions tons Mussolini.--Reuter, are in flour mills or siles, which now hold 2.5 and 1.9 million tons more than on the corresponding date last year.-United Press.

Pittman's Accusallans

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Senator Bridge of New Hamshire in a broadcast speech last evening.

Capt. Mark K

United States Army officer, Beting Chief of the Philippines Army Air Corps, an- nounced that 11 aeroplanes will be holding their first general manocu- Mr. Roosevelt, he maintained, avres from Murch 7 to 13, embracing Washington, Feb. 21. heading for war and lostanced in the whole Aren of all the Islands Senator Pittman asked, "Did not support of this contention the Pre-south of Luzon. The initial practic the British policy of appeasement sident's action in entering into agree will comprise actual gunnery and surrender to the mercy of Tutler not ments with other countries without bombing-United Press.

public opinion Or only Czecho-Slovakin but also Po- the consent of land, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Tur- Congress as well as his apparent in- key?

to use the power of the What is there to

his tention stop domination, if not the conquest of United States to police the world," these countries, and what can Hol- Senator Pittman, Chairman of the land and Denmark de-in regard to Foreign Affairs committee followed Iitler's demands? Does anyone with a two-hour speech in which he

that Hitler has

defended the present foreign policy in his pro-

the public to rally to the support of a street in the International Conces- Chinn Merchants, in 1932 attempted bent on domination in East Asia in-

After declaring that Japan was President Roosevelt and not allow itself to be missed by the oppositional siori-United Press.

to put across a fraudulent deal with

foreign finance company involving cluding stands in the Pacific, Senu-press-Trans-Ocean,

million tnels by unlawfully for Pittman made a cryptic reference to Mussolini being "by force of cir- Merchonis mortgaging the China

the However, the Chinese Tokyo triangle.

cumstances" in property. Marquis Li Kuo-chich, grandson Government tried Li who received a

Berlin-Rome- | of the stateaman, Li Hung-chang heavy gnel sentence and a huge Anc. President Roosevelt's policy was to Tow many of these word with

Senator Pittman concluded that) the International heigh Court Just dve the oppress cor Settlement this afternoon. The un- prior to the start of the current Government" all help it could the others? mun responsible for the outrage hostilities asking for his release on cscaped.

the grounds of illness and his request legally dive, short of war-Reuter. stittleback The stick was made by two gun-was granted-United Press.

Terrorists claimed another victim ings towards the Nanking Reformed | dome domination over the Ukraine, of the Government and appealed to

to-day when they killed Marquis Ll Government.—Reuter, Kuo-chith, who is unofficially con- nected with the Nanking regime, in

Shot on Footpath

Shanghai, Feb. 21.

was assassinated

me at 6 pm. while Lf was walking

to his motor car from the house. He

Involved in Scandal Marquis Li, while head of the and even Siberia?"

Japanese Buggestion

Sbanghal, Feb. 21.

Policing The World

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pneumattie Argonaught pocketty Wasbutton, Feb. 21. received", five ballet” wounds and The Japanese newspaper Tairiku Prezident Roosevelt's foreign English: Oxford Dictionary spells dropped on the pavement, paceing, Shimbun to-day prints. Fui articol policy has brought · the United Irig of there words will be found on away in hospital în hour later.

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